Mark Pett

authorstrator

It’s almost here! Tomorrow my new book, THIS IS MY BOOK!, releases in bookstores nationwide! I, for one, enjoy seeing a wee bit of the process that goes into making a book. So, to get everyone ready for the big event, I’m posting some behind the scenes photos from producing final art of the book’s two main characters: The Author (moi), and the Panda (Spike). I love seeing these...

I am thrilled (and terrified) to announce the impending release of my new book, THIS IS MY BOOK! This one is especially personal because it stars ME as the author and illustrator of the book. As the author and illustrator, I become extremely frustrated when my freshly drawn helper panda, Spike, does not follow my rules for the book. He starts by coloring on my clean white pages, then adding...

I imagine novelists the world wide have anxiety dreams in which their books come out and they forgot to include the words. Well, friends, in a mere 12 days, my new book THE BOY AND THE AIRPLANE arrives on bookshelves both actual and virtual, and here’s the hitch: it has ZERO words in it! (pause for ooohs and aaahs) Now, granted, I have allowed myself the use of pictures, which, it turns...

The Pett Family has an annual tradition. Every year, on February 19th, we put the numbers zero through nine into a hat. We draw a number out, write it down, and put it back in the hat. We repeat this until we have five numbers. Whatever zip code that is, we must visit sometime in the next year. As you can imagine, this has led to some interesting vacation destinations over the years: Cedar...

If you’re like me, you wonder about the origins of things. How did we evolve from single-celled organisms into such wonderfully complex human forms? Whence did the seeds of civilization first take hold? From whose brilliant mind did the idea for Squeez Bacon come? Similarly, you may be wondering about the term “authorstrator,” the catch-all moniker I have chosen for this site du web. It happened...